UDAY KHANNA
Independent Director
Appointed:
3 January 2012
Career
Uday Khanna is a Chartered Accountant and an Independent Director on the board of Castrol India Limited.
Mr. Khanna has served as the Managing Director & CEO of Lafarge India from July 2005 to July 2011. He had joined the Lafarge Group at its headquarters in Paris in June 2003 as Senior Vice President for Group Strategy. Prior to that, he worked for almost 30 years with Hindustan Lever Limited / Unilever in a variety of financial, commercial, and general management roles both in India and international markets.
His last role at Unilever was as Senior Vice President, Finance, Unilever Asia, based in Singapore. Mr. Khanna has earlier been on the Board of Hindustan Unilever Limited as Director Exports, after having served as Financial Controller and Treasurer of the company. He also worked as Vice Chairman of Lever Brothers in Nigeria and General Auditor for Unilever North America based in the USA and as non-executive Chairman of Bata India Limited.
Mr. Khanna has been the President of the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry from 2008 to 2009, and the President of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry from 2012 to 2013.